2016 Conference Agenda

Sunday, October 23, 2016

9:30 – 3:30 PM

Pre-Conferences

Objective: To explore the science and literature of personal, organizational, and community resilience and look at the practical applications of specific techniques to strengthen both individuals and communities.

Participants will be able to:

Discuss the neurophysiological basis for the effects of Voluntarily Regulated Breathing Practices (VRBPs) on the autonomic nervous system sympatho-vagal balance and stress response.

Acquire knowledge about how to use Coherent Breathing with Breath Moving to reduce or prevent symptoms of stress, including anxiety, depression, PTSD and burnout.

Access practice tools and further educational resources to support regular practice of VRBPs for personal stress management and skill development, as well as to maintain improvements attained through breathing, movement, and meditation practices learned in the workshop.

Explain how VRBPS can mitigate the effects of stress on mood, energy, relationships, and stress resilience.

Describe the use of VRBPs for relief of anxiety, depression and PTSD in survivors of disasters.

Some research and techniques for self-care that will be explored include:

Mindfulness, Meditation, Spirituality

Exercise

Physical Health

Placebo Effect

Alternative Medicine

Speaker

Ingrid Donato, SAMHSA, Pre-conference Kick-off Comments

Richard Brown, MD

Monday, October 24. 2016

Time

Session

Speakers

8:00 – 8:30 AM

Registration

8:30 – 9:00

Welcome and Overview

9:00 – 9:40

Defining Resilience, understanding bio-markers and how to use them, and promoting resilience.

Objective: To present an understanding of resilience and to learn about the emerging science of neurobiological, genetic adaptations for research-based therapeutic interventions for trauma and stress to promote mental wellness and resilience for individuals, families and communities.

Participants will be able to:

Characterize risk and protective factors human beings have relative to stressors in their lives

Summarize how people repair the biopsychosocial damage left by trauma and other life events

Explain how systems, services, families, consumers, and communities can help reclaim lives

How do you observe resilience? What does it look like?

What is the science behind resilience?

Can an understanding of neuroplasticity/epigenetics, hormonal control, etc., lead to new therapeutic interventions?

Promoting individual, family & community resilience

Psychosocial aspects of resilience

Courtenay Harding, PhD

9:40 – 10:20

What is resilience? – continued

Participants will be able to:

To review science regarding early life stress and resilience from a clinician’s perspective.

Discuss what we know (and do not know) about integrating biomarkers into treatment research to improve how we intervene.

Sarah Gray, PhD

10:20 – 10:35

BREAK

10:35 – 11:15

What is resilience? – continued

Ingrid Donato, SAMHSA

11:15 – 11:45

Dialogues

Participants will discuss above objectives for the topic “What is Resilience?

Harding, Gray, & Donato

11:45 – 1:00 pm

LUNCH

1:00 – 1:45

Building resilience: mental health promotion and prevention

Objective: The premise of this session is that resilience involves more than just “bouncing back” and includes the ability to cope with unanticipated shocks and disasters. Some strategies include: risk analysis, integrated and holistic approaches, partnerships, knowledge management, and a social capital focus. Based on this framework, the objectives of this session are to understand and develop:

How resilience is being incorporated into behavioral health approaches

How vulnerable populations and potential risks are being identified

What specific programmatic interventions are being implemented and funded?

What challenges are faced by programs promoting resilience?

How to best move forward with resilience programming?

What have people done?

What are the outcomes?

Early intervention

Building Resilience Collaboratives

Implications for what we do next in this country

Mental Health Promotion – what are other countries doing?

Keris Myrick, SAMHSA

1:45 – 2:30

Building resilience: mental health promotion and prevention – continued

Participants will be able to:

Provide an overview of the current state of science of mindfulness as it relates to behavioral health care;

Discuss the relevance and use of mindfulness for organizational leaders like themselves;

Provide an experience of mindfulness meditation through a short, guided meditation.

Norman Anderson, PhD

2:30 – 2:45

BREAK

2:45 – 3:30

Building resilience: mental health promotion and prevention – continued

Participants will be able to:

Provide an understanding of the rationale for mental health promotion and resilience.

Provide an overview of approaches to mental health promotion and resilience adopted by various countries.

Provide lessons learned from these experiences and implications for U.S. initiatives.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Time

Session

Speakers

8:30 – 9:52 AM

Challenges and building resiliency over the lifespan. (Individual and Family)

Objective: The broad goal of this session is to understand and develop how resilience can be promoted at different stages of life, from early childhood through old age. More specifically, the objectives of this session are to understand and develop:

Interventions that promote resilience in early childhood

Interventions that promote resilience in teenagers and young adults

Interventions that promote and maintain resilience in adults (for all
genders and a variety of cultural groups, etc.)

Interventions for older adults

Participants will:

Learn about factors that contribute to individual and family risk and resilience following natural and technological disasters.

It is important to recognize that most people will be resilient, that is, show the ability to bounce back after diversity.

Learn about trajectories of posttraumatic stress and resilience over time.

Joy Osofsky, PhD

9:52 – 10:30

Challenges and building resiliency over the lifespan. (Individual and Family) continued

Ingrid Donato

10:30 – 10:45

BREAK

10:45 – 11:30

Challenges and building resiliency over the lifespan. (Individual and Family) continued

Ingrid Donato

11:30 – 12:00

Dialogues

1. Participants will discuss above objectives for the topic “Challenges and building resiliency over the lifespan”

Osofsky & Donato

12:00 – 1:30 PM

LUNCH

1:30 – 2:07

Specific interventions in the context of culture.

Objective: The common phrase ‘it takes a community’ could not be more salient when building community resilience. Individuals, families, businesses, education, healthcare, law enforcement, transportation, public health, churches, social organizations, foundations, media and more are all critical partners and collaborators. This session will share approaches that can be used to build community resilience including social cognitive theory approaches such as self-efficacy and self/human agency as they pertain to resilience.

Community

Definition of multiple communities, etc.

Community collaboratives

Social cohesion: role of churches, clubs, etc.

Self- efficacy and self – agency

Peers

Cross cutting technology to build toward community resiliency. How is it being used to developinterventions to build resilience?

This session will illustrate tools available to identify hot spots for focusing efforts to build community resilience. Hot spot mapping is often used in the criminal justice arena to inform public safety activities, however also offers a pathway to anticipating suicide trends based on historical patterns. Discuss how this framework can focus resilience building efforts.

Teaming public safety and behavioral health

Technology: “There’s an App for That.”

(Thad) Explore existing and emerging technologies that are supporting initiatives related to personal and community resiliency including GIS systems, analytics, and smart phone apps.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Time

Session

Speakers

8:30 – 9:15 am

The role of media.

Objective: This session will include a discussion of social and mass media campaigns addressing critical factors targeting individual and community resilience. Specific examples will be shared along with available outcome data that are available from these efforts.

Role of social media vis a vis public health, suicide, etc.

Role of Mass Media

Mimi McFaul, PsyD

9:15 – 10:00

The role of media – continued

Participants will:

Gain insight into the motivations for and potential applications of social media in mental health resilience and recovery.

Learn one model for using social media to grow stakeholder expertise and build community support.

Learn one example of how grassroots social media movements can significantly drive innovation and research in mental health.

April Foreman, PhD

10:00 – 10:15

BREAK

10:15 – 11:00

The role of media – continued

Participants will:

Discuss how the media performed in several public disasters and the effect it had on citizens’ recovery.